A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

Thu Oct 22 07:22:24 EDT 2015

"Peter Brittain" <peter.brittain.os at gmail.com> wrote:
>I have recently been working on a terminal/console animation package
> (https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics). 

I tried installing your package with "pip.exe -v install asciimatics".
Some problem with pypiwin32 it seems:
Installing collected packages: pypiwin32, future, Pillow, pyfiglet, asciimatics
 Cleaning up...
 Exception:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\basecommand.py", line 232, in main
 status = self.run(options, args)
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\commands\install.py", line 347, in run
 root=options.root_path,
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\req\req_set.py", line 549, in install
 **kwargs
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\req\req_install.py", line 751, in install
 self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\req\req_install.py", line 960, in move_wheel_files
 isolated=self.isolated,
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\wheel.py", line 234, in move_wheel_files
 clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\wheel.py", line 212, in clobber
 shutil.copyfile(srcfile, destfile)
 File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
 with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
 IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'g:\\Programfiler\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32api.pyd'
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BTW, this is on Python 2.7.9 on Win-XP SP3.
--gv